Ben Bloom
Sports Journalist at Freelance
Freelance sports journalist, formerly at the Telegraph. Author of 'Batting for Time'. Buy the book here: https://t.co/UGm7CDp4SX
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Ben Bloom
A few years ago, any Australian coming over to play county cricket would be added to a WhatsApp group entitled: “Stevo’s gonna get ya.”The group was named in honour of Darren Stevens, the canny former Leicestershire and Kent all-rounder who only seemed to improve with age until finally bowing out of the professional game three years ago at the age of 46.
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observer.co.uk | Ben Bloom
There is a video that has emerged recently of Vaibhav Suryavanshi. It is far from the only one; scoring the second fastest Indian Premier League hundred days after your 14th birthday has the tendency to act as lighter fluid to a sport-mad country’s raging cricketing inferno. Hence the unearthing of countless recordings taken along the way. But this particular 17-second clip catches the eye. It dates back to Covid lockdown, some time in 2021, when Suryavanshi was just 10.
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Ben Bloom
“Ladies and gentlemen, here is the result of event No 9, the one mile,” crackled the voice of Iffley Road track announcer Norris McWhirter, before teasing the crowd with a protracted list of the marks Roger Bannister had just claimed. Bannister’s run, noted McWhirter, would stand as a meeting, track, English, British, all-comers, European, Empire and world record.
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premierleague.com | Ben Bloom
Football writer Ben Bloom takes a detailed look at the last seven games of the upcoming Premier League season and analyses which clubs have the trickiest run-in. The start of the 2025/26 Premier League season is nearly upon us and the release of the fixture list presents fans with the tantalising prospect of everything to come. Can Liverpool launch a successful title defence? Will Manchester City bounce back from a disappointing campaign?
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Ben Bloom
The ball pitches just outside off stump, nibbles sufficiently off the surface to tempt the outside edge and nestles into the hands of wide first slip, prompting bowler James Anderson to raise his right arm in customary celebration. The second delivery of Lancashire’s T20 Blast trip to Worcestershire on Friday night was both warmingly familiar and curiously unusual.
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In any other era, Shoaib Bashir and Will Smeed might be seeking alternative occupation. Instead, they embody a very modern cricketing phenomenon: prospering around the world, but yearning for a chance at home. https://t.co/lhSfwDqLbn
Halfway through the County Championship season, a look at how everyone is faring… with ‘little’ Leicestershire flourishing and winless Lancashire in need of a coach and captain. https://t.co/QAp4P8NekV
Sarah Roberts had never run in her life until she turned 67. Now she's the fastest 75-year-old woman in history. I went for a run with the extraordinary grandmother who holds every 75+ world record from 800m to 10km (she can also plank for 10 minutes). https://t.co/jSXdqrwVJA